The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.

Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.

I can only hope that neither of them was scarred by their upbringing.

There is no right or wrong.There is no weak or strong.There is only you.

In the fall nature informs us of its artistic side. It again confirms the beauty of the world. Nature is art perfected.

A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.

I was'nt always black. there was this freckel that just grew and grew.

May you always walk in Beauty.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

I wanna grow up and be a critic.

Without a vision the people perish.